VIDEO: Leaked Footage of Chinese Factory Making Fake Budweiser Beer

Budweiser has been working very hard for more than a decade to establish itself as the “King of Beers” on the market.

Anheuser-Busch had 15 breweries outside of the US in 2012, of which 14 of them were in China, and this helped Budweiser become the country’s 3rd biggest beer brand in 2014.

But everything isn’t pink so this success also meant that people would try to counterfeit their beer to make easy profit.

When you decide to grab an ice cold can of Budweiser beer you never think that it could be a fake. But it actually could.

According to foxnews.com, a small Chinese factory in the Southeastern city of Dongguan was busted earlier this month for making counterfeit cans of Budweiser beer, The Daily Meal reports.

The underground operation, which has since been shut down by authorities, was caught on video. The footage shows factory workers dunking used Budweiser cans into a tub of what appears to be beer.

The cans are then sent down a conveyor belt where they appear to be resealed. At the end of the video, crates of the beer are packaged and prepared to be shipped.

The factory was producing up to 600,000 cans of counterfeit beer a month, which were distributed to bars and nightclubs, according to Shanghaiist.

The Daily Meal reached out to Anheuser-Busch, which owns Budweiser. A representative for the beer maker released the following statement:

“Every drop of Budweiser consumed in America is brewed in America at one of our 12 U.S. breweries.

The video that has been circulating on some social networks is from a small-scale counterfeit operator in China. We have been working with local authorities to shut it down immediately.”

Anheuser-Busch also offered advice to consumers on how to spot a counterfeit product.

“Budweiser takes great care in every detail of its product and packaging.

Cheap counterfeits have telltale signs that they are fakes such as imperfect seals, improper date coding, product name and text that have errors, and poor quality packaging and graphics.”

Anheuser-Busch currently operates 14 breweries in China and they maintain their standards in these locations.

If you see that anything is weird with the can of Budweiser that you have purchased then you should call customer support and not drink it.

Who knows what might be in them and you might end up drinking something that’s completely wrong for you.

We should all get what we paid for and everything should be up to par.

You should never be given something you didn’t ask for and people shouldn’t try and counterfeit other products.

There’s no telling what could be in those can and they could be potentially lethal if they are not verified accordingly.

You have a right to know exactly what you are drinking and what you are paying for. And no one should try and take this away from you.

You shouldn’t let these things go on if you have any reason to believe that something is wrong.